Quotes about meaning
meaningful memories writing
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. Ayelet Waldman
meaningful believe reality
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. Benjamin Disraeli
meaningful philosophy struggle
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. Bryant H. McGill
meaningful ambition accomplishment
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
meaningful differences long
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
meaningful jesus struggle
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it. Cesar Chavez
meaningful lying believe
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity. Stephen Jay Gould
meaning playing quit song stops
If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. Conor Oberst
meaningful trying
We're trying to make it meaningful for the children, Ann Moore
meaningful open paula space
We need to show Paula what meaningful open space is.
meaning-of-life knows know-how
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. Kurt Vonnegut
meaningful artist pretending
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
meaningful communication order
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
meaningful courage real
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. Alan Cohen
meaningful teaching focus
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
meaningful purpose purpose-of-life
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
meaning safety
We didn't even know what safety was. We didn't know the meaning of the word. Bill Elliott
meaning pageant showcase spread word
The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.
meaningful animal glasses
There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak. Gary L. Francione
meaningful small
I wouldn't want anything big or extravagant on Valentine's Day. Something small and meaningful would do just fine.
meaningful real issues
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives. Alain de Botton
meaningful political-opinions years
When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network? Al Franken
meaningful speaks-out keys
The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out. Al Gore
meaningful democracies-have two
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.
meaning organs potential process recent soon species transplant
It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,
meaningful willing
Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform. Marsha Blackburn
meaningful work
If it didn't work out, one thing we did know was that we could at least look back on it as a really meaningful part of our career, Billie Armstrong
meaningful heart important
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. Dave Pelzer
meaningful grateful roots
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have. David Niven
meaningful determination self
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. Dick Thornburgh
meaningful creating keys
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long. Bill Crawford
meaningful love-is goal
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.
meaningful skills want
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.